CURVE lips inward, embouchure set
START blowing with keen execution
REEDY tones on the clarinet, whose
VOICE sounds breathy- nearly human.
Month: January 2023
Worshipper of Mars
REEDY voiced Patton, inextricably both martinet and maverick,
VOICE high, swearing a streak, because warriors swear,
CURVE of gleaming helmet liner, ivory pistol grips, blending with
START of battle in feral drive, never letting up, hard charging worshipper of Mars.
Ain’t Just a River
CURVE of the Nile, each bank
REEDY and good for camouflage:
START the little ark’s journey––its passenger’s
VOICE will bring down an empire.
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2023-01-13 words
REEDY, VOICE, CURVE, START
Rule Following
“PRESS” the round
DECAL instructed. I did.
VOCAL orders ensued- with much
GUSTO I quickly obeyed, lest that voice might think me rude.
Decal of a Fish
VOCAL about truth, yet quick to slander,
PRESS bias decrying, even so partial only to one’s tribe,
GUSTO for a past estate, exactly none for present day.
DECAL of a fish on the car, opaque cipher, meaning less and less.
Adhesive
VOCAL and nagging, your fears
PRESS into your heart like a
DECAL, smoothing out the bubbles with
GUSTO.
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2023-01-12 words
VOCAL, PRESS, GUSTO, DECAL
Fine art
With one aesthetic CLICK
he took a photo super-ARTSY
in which the ordinary sun SHONE
on an even more ordinary PLANK.
They Blink
PLANK in my eye, yet
SHONE as disgraced to me the
ARTSY fakers, the influencers, the sham
CLICK mongers, blinking with their grains of sand.